Python Performance Optimization and Scaling Strategies
Duration
3 Days (8 hours per day)
Level
Intermediate to Advanced Level
Design and Tailor this course
As per your team needs
The “Python Performance Optimization and Scaling Strategies” course is designed for equipping participants with advanced techniques and tools for optimizing Python applications. The focus will be on efficient memory management, CPU performance optimization, and efficient scaling to address performance bottlenecks.
Learners will have hands-on experience using Python profiling tools like cProfile, memory_profiler, and Py-Spy and implement strategies for effective network optimization. The course also intends to imbibe into participants performance-oriented coding best practices to successfully implement scalable architectures. Finally, in addition to analyzing and fixing system-level inefficiencies, they will also learn about the best practices for improving REST APIs, asynchronous programming, and using Python libraries NumPy and Cython.
By the end of this course, you will be able to identify and fix performance challenges, get a practical toolkit to address memory leaks, task optimization, and dynamic scaling to meet real-world demands.
Key Takeaways:
- Python profiling tools like cProfile, memory_profiler, and Py-Spy.
- Tools like memory_profiler and Pympler to detect and resolve memory leaks.
- Optimize CPU performance with multithreading, multiprocessing, and asynchronous programming.
- Hands-on experience with Celery for distributed task management
- Using Flask for building scalable microservices.
- Network traffic analysis using Scapy.
- REST API optimization techniques.
- Advanced optimization using NumPy, Cython, and line_profiler.
- Python developers and engineers
- System architects
- Data engineers
- DevOps engineers
- Overview of cProfile, memory_profiler, and Py-Spy
- Understanding Python’s Global Interpreter Lock (GIL)
- Profiling strategies: CPU vs. memory profiling
- Setting up a Python profiling environment
- Hands-on Lab: Using cProfile to identify performance bottlenecks in a Python script
- Python’s garbage collection mechanism
- Detecting memory leaks with memory_profiler and Pympler
- Techniques for optimizing memory usage
- Best practices for managing data structures efficiently
- Hands-on Lab: Detecting and resolving memory leaks in a Python application using memory_profiler
- Using cProfile to identify CPU-bound code
- Multithreading vs. multiprocessing: When to use each
- Asynchronous programming for improved performance
- Implementing efficient algorithms to reduce CPU load
- Hands-on Lab: Optimizing a CPU-bound Python script using multi-processing
- Concepts of scaling: Vertical vs. horizontal scaling
- Using Celery for distributed task processing
- Asynchronous programming with asyncio
- Microservices architecture for Python applications
- Hands-on Lab: Creating a scalable microservice using Flask and Celery
- Using Scapy for network packet analysis
- Reducing network overhead in Python applications
- Techniques for optimizing REST APIs
- Best practices for efficient network programming
- Hands-on Lab: Analyzing network traffic with Scapy and optimizing a Python-based API
- Code profiling with Py-Spy and line_profiler
- Utilizing NumPy and Cython for performance gains
- Reducing memory footprint with generators and iterators
- Handling I/O efficiently in Python
- Hands-on Lab: Applying advanced optimization techniques to improve the performance of a Python project
- Intermediate Python programming skills and knowledge of libraries
- Basic knowledge of Linux systems and command-line tools
- Familiarity with concurrency concepts (e.g., multithreading, multiprocessing)
- Exposure to Python web frameworks (optional)
- Basic understanding of network programming